Ophthalmologic evaluation of severely obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery: A pilot, monocentric, prospective, open-label study.
Chiara PosarelliGuido SalvettiPaolo PiaggiFrancesca GuidoGiovanni CeccariniFerruccio SantiniMichele FigusPublished in: PloS one (2019)
The results of this study suggest that obese patients may have a greater susceptibility to develop glaucomatous optic nerve head damage and age-related macular degeneration. Moreover, weight reduction and improvement of comorbidities obtained by bariatric surgery may be effective in preventing eye disease development by improving retinal nerve fiber layer and foveal thickness.
Keyphrases
- bariatric surgery
- obese patients
- optic nerve
- weight loss
- optical coherence tomography
- roux en y gastric bypass
- patients undergoing
- gastric bypass
- open label
- age related macular degeneration
- clinical trial
- metabolic syndrome
- type diabetes
- oxidative stress
- body mass index
- randomized controlled trial
- diabetic retinopathy
- study protocol
- phase ii
- locally advanced